Comments on: Moving to Wordpress… http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/ Musings about Open Source, Linux, and Life by Theodore Tso Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:49:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Michael Dolan Dot Com » Ted Ts’o moved his blog to WordPress http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-25 Michael Dolan Dot Com » Ted Ts’o moved his blog to WordPress Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:12:36 +0000 http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-25 [...] http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/ Because I’ve been getting a little frustrated with the lack of trackback support, prohibition against Javascript, etc. I’ve decided to set up a Wordpress installation on my private machine. Posted by md on September 26th, 2007 | Filed in WordPress, Open Source Software | [...] [...] http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/ Because I’ve been getting a little frustrated with the lack of trackback support, prohibition against Javascript, etc. I’ve decided to set up a Wordpress installation on my private machine. Posted by md on September 26th, 2007 | Filed in WordPress, Open Source Software | [...]

]]> By: tytso http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-5 tytso Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:28:42 +0000 http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-5 Hi Rick, I haven't had any problems to date, but we'll see how things go. Wordpress is open source, so if there are problems, I'm not afraid to dive into PHP and fixing the problem myself. It's the ability to customize the blog via adding plugins of my choice, and if necessary, hacking the PHP myself and the submitting the changes back for inclusion in a future version of Wordpress which is highly important to me. I did take a look at blogger.com, and one thing that I dislike about it as a blogging platform is that it doesn't support trackback pings --- which was the reason why I migrated off of LiveJournal. Hi Rick,

I haven’t had any problems to date, but we’ll see how things go. Wordpress is open source, so if there are problems, I’m not afraid to dive into PHP and fixing the problem myself. It’s the ability to customize the blog via adding plugins of my choice, and if necessary, hacking the PHP myself and the submitting the changes back for inclusion in a future version of Wordpress which is highly important to me. I did take a look at blogger.com, and one thing that I dislike about it as a blogging platform is that it doesn’t support trackback pings — which was the reason why I migrated off of LiveJournal.

]]> By: Rick Cook http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-4 Rick Cook Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:01:30 +0000 http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-4 Ted, I take it you're going to run your own copy of WordPress rather than setting up a blog on WordPress.com. I never tried a copy of WordPress on my site, but my experience with WordPress.com was so dismal I moved all my blogs over to blogger. As far as I can see the problem isn't with the WordPress software, it's with the implementation they use to run WordPress.com. The final straw was my inability to write a message in another editor and post it in WordPress without all sorts of gawd-awful formatting problems. This is even after I converted it to a text file, strained that through Wordpad, etc. Good luck and I hope your experience running WordPress yourself is more productive than mine with WordPress.com --Rick Cook Ted, I take it you’re going to run your own copy of WordPress rather than setting up a blog on WordPress.com.

I never tried a copy of WordPress on my site, but my experience with WordPress.com was so dismal I moved all my blogs over to blogger.

As far as I can see the problem isn’t with the WordPress software, it’s with the implementation they use to run WordPress.com.

The final straw was my inability to write a message in another editor and post it in WordPress without all sorts of gawd-awful formatting problems. This is even after I converted it to a text file, strained that through Wordpad, etc.

Good luck and I hope your experience running WordPress yourself is more productive than mine with WordPress.com

–Rick Cook

]]> By: michal http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-2 michal Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:11:32 +0000 http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2007/09/12/moving-to-wordpress/#comment-2 Wordpress is pretty cool, I find it more useful than blogger.com Regards, Michal Wordpress is pretty cool, I find it more useful than blogger.com

Regards,
Michal

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